• Heresy_generator@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    How about we just get rid of “private sale” exceptions to background checks in states like Tennessee to slow the tide of guns flowing into the black market?

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      1 year ago

      In Tennessee, one has to buy liquor from the government, but can buy a gun (including semi-auto rifles) from a random person in a parking lot. No questions asked.

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        1 year ago

        I know a person who actually obtained a handgun this way. In a parking lot of a bar on Florida, from a seller who was in his lunch break as an electrician… I’ll let those details sink in for anyone safety oriented.

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          1 year ago

          O noooo, a bar parking lot…the humanity…did this someone you know go on to become a serial killer? Or do you still know them and they’re a normal person.

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        1 year ago

        Most firearms are semi-auto… what’s your point? You clearly don’t know much about firearms with a statement like that.

        You can do this in pretty much every state as well. Private sales are legal basically in the entire USA.